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General First nameMatthew Wyatt Joseph
LastnameFry
GenderMale
CountryIreland
Date of birth1863-00-00
Place of birthKilkeedy, County Clare, Ireland
Date of death1943-12-02
Place of deathDublin, Ireland


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From: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/TCD/#Fry

Matthew Wyatt Joseph Fry, who died in December, 1943, at the age of eighty, was one of the oldest members of the London Mathematical Society. He was born in County Clare and received his early education in Galway Grammar School. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1881 and obtained a Fellowship in 1889. Fellowship at that time was awarded on the result of a competitive examination, which did not encourage specialisation. The mathematical course covered a wide field of both pure and applied mathematics, but in order to have a chance of success a man was obliged to have a second subject. Some men took three subjects, and such combinations as mathematics, classics, and Hebrew were not uncommon.

Fry took experimental science as his second subject. Shortly after obtaining his Fellowship he was appointed Tutor, and he spent much time in lecturing to engineering and other students of elementary mathematics. In Trinity College, Dublin, much of the administrative work of the college and university is done by the Fellows, and as Fry displayed great aptitude for such work he was called on to fill many executive posts. In 1910 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy. He retired from the Chair in 1926 when he was succeeded by his former pupil, Dr John L. Synge. In 1909 he married Margaret Barker, daughter of the late Colonel Sir Francis Barker. He is survived by his widow, a son and two daughters.

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Archive statistics Career1886 - 1887
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Tournaments Dublin University LT Championships - 1887 Dublin University LT Championships - 1886